by Brad M Bucklin | Jun 2, 2018 | Featured, Offbeat, Strange History
What is it with Dragon’s? From hit television shows, books to video games, cartoons and Chinese Astrological signs, it seems dragons are popular and have been for a long time. Known to many cultures they were described by Ancient Greeks as Draconta, meaning “to watch”...
by Brad M Bucklin | Sep 8, 2017 | Featured, Offbeat
Did you ever want to be super smart in Math, history, or science or how about have an incredible memory or even be the next Picasso or Rembrandt? What if all you had to do was get hit in the head and that was that? There have been documented cases of such a phenomenon...
by Kristian Gabriel | Feb 26, 2017 | Articles, Featured, Offbeat, Strange History
In a Calvin and Hobbes comic, six-year-old Calvin finds himself the only boy on a playground full of girls and declares: “Oh no! I’m in cootie central! I haven’t had my shots!” Thousands of kids on playgrounds all over the world continue to be infected with—that most...
by Kristian Gabriel | Dec 24, 2016 | Articles, Featured, Offbeat, Weird Science
Human beings are disgusting. That is an absolute given. Whether it is denied or embraced depends on the person and where their standards lie or how little shame they have. Yet, despite our compulsions or bad habits that make us such uniquely gross creatures, we...
by Brad M Bucklin | Nov 14, 2014 | Articles, Featured, Offbeat, Strange History
FACT #01 In the early 17th century, a wave of religious reform changed the way Christmas was celebrated in Europe. When Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan forces took over England in 1645, they vowed to rid England of decadence and, as part of their effort, cancelled...
by Brad M Bucklin | Apr 13, 2014 | Articles, Offbeat
I grew up with the saying “Running around like a chicken with your head cut off.” Basically it was anyone who was frantic but had no direction and I thought it was descriptive from a purely metaphorical standpoint, little did I know that it was based on a...
